Under the silver-white snow-capped mountains, on the grass half as high as a person, Xuanji, wearing a simple skirt, ran desperately in the fields. She had black hair and bare feet, like a wild child. A terrifying black shadow followed her, crossing the field.
Coming closer.
"You can't escape."
She always remembered the voice of the Grand Commander. He was wearing the armor of an ancient Teutonic knight, and his helmet was decorated with a pair of tall and long antlers, and his ghostly black shadow was extremely huge.
Terrified, Xuanji ran to avoid the rapidly expanding shadow.
Suddenly, a broken high wall appeared in front of her, automatically surrounding her in the middle. When she turned back in a hurry, the knight severely strangled her neck with his armor-gloved hands and lifted her feet into the air.
Pick it up.
"Ah!——" Xuanji screamed and woke up.
"You have a nightmare. We can arrange psychological counseling for you at ten o'clock tomorrow." The small artificial intelligence nursing robot slid over smoothly, and the artificial intelligence set it up with a gentle healing voice like a mother or sister.
Xuanji's small transparent ward lights up.
"Post-traumatic stress disorder is a very common battlefield mental illness, you don't need to worry."
"No need, I will get better on my own."
She touched her forehead and saw it was covered in sweat.
After the little robot covered her with a protective cover, she slipped away again.
This is her nightmare.
Shortly after she was discharged from the hospital, she received a compensation of 50,000 luna from the Ministry of War, after tax; but her application for military discharge was not approved. Her superiors praised her performance very much and urged her to
She continued to serve in the military, but she knew she would never return to the confident self she had been before that day.
Everyone has their own world, and everyone's world is independent of others' world. You live in other people's world, and others also live in your world.
Another feast of killing.
Kalki, wearing the grand commander's space armor, rushed into the "Star Palace", the presidential palace of Gaia's coalition government, and fought with Gaia's most elite special forces. These special forces were far superior to NGC 2547 in terms of equipment, technical and tactical levels.
With the weak garrison at the base, Kalki still chooses to fight alone. He wants to see how far he can go among the enemy troops that are constantly being reinforced.
Continuous explosions, countless flying bullets and building fragments——
He uses constant running to attract the opponent's firepower and constantly penetrates to disrupt the opponent's entire defense line. Although this consumes a lot of the attacker's physical strength, he has never felt a lack of physical strength.
He is the god of the battlefield, and no one can stop him——
In order to hinder him, the engineering troops of Gaia's special forces used "soil". "Spore" is an extremely soft and light substance, but when it encounters air, it will quickly expand and solidify into huge stones. Both sides will fight in actual combat.
Use it to block enemies in a limited space, but the soil needs about 1 second to fully expand, so it needs to erupt to a high place, which will produce the effect of rolling boulders.
But he took advantage of this brief moment and used the extreme movement energy of the armor to pierce lightning from the falling boulder. Then he raised a sniper grenade machine gun and fired wildly at the Gaia defenders. The effect of this powerful gun was simply incredible.
The scene instantly turned into a slaughterhouse, and a large number of Gaia's special forces were penetrated by their protective armor and fell to the ground dead. Those who used light shields to protect the escaping Gaia's special forces, he followed and hunted down, clearing out rooms one by one. "Xi soil
"Instead, the reinforcements were isolated, and this corner was completely at his mercy.
The more Kalki fights, the braver he becomes. He is enjoying the pleasure brought by fierce battles. The pleasure of killing controls his nerves. He is a killing machine carefully cultivated by Plato, and killing is his only specialty.
When he pushed into the transparent curtain wall at the end of the room, he unexpectedly saw a girl standing in front of the curtain wall with a big hole punched out, with her back to him, overlooking Manxing City.
He suddenly stopped. Is this the person he wanted to see in his heart? Everything is false, false battles, false deaths, false...the girl in white.
Because "lokadhātu" is connected to the consciousness of the combatant, sometimes strange consciousnesses enter. This is a bug that the developers of this system cannot eliminate. The human brain is so complex that even the Platonic scientists of the 27th century were unable to thoroughly study it.
, just like opening an old drawer, you will find small objects that you have forgotten for a long time. Kalki stopped in front of the "little objects" in his mind, admiring her beauty. She was tall and dressed in Plato's court ladies.
She often wears a white classical gauze skirt and has long black flowing hair. She is plain and simple, but there is a metal snake-shaped armband wrapped around her slender left arm.
This romantic figure that has nothing to do with the battlefield turned out to be his subconscious expectation.
"Kalki, you are here."
It turns out that her voice was so beautiful in my memory. The evening breeze on the high-rise building was so strong that it blew her hair and dress almost straight up. She was facing the sunset of Gaia's "sun" and everything in the Star City.
They were all shrouded in the extremely beautiful sunset. Everything was so beautiful that he was in a trance and forgot about the battle...
Oh, no, game, everything is just a game.
"Stay with me." She turned slightly sideways and whispered to him.
He thought her posture was beautiful. He had never had such close contact with a young and beautiful girl in his life, so he could hardly resist her words and stood with her admiring the unparalleled beauty.
"Let me see your face."
His helmet automatically flipped back, revealing a young and handsome face that was incompatible with the terrifying-looking space armor.
He looked down at her. He could perceive her with his own eyes instead of the signals projected by the armor on the retinal nerves. It felt so good to feel the night breeze together. Although this move was seeking death in actual combat, he didn't care.
Well, what a wonderful moment this is.
His clear and moving blue eyes were coated with a layer of gold in the sunset, overlooking a city unparalleled in the universe.
"If the two worlds stop fighting, if peace comes one day, and human beings become a family again, loving each other... you have to watch the sunset with me."
She actually spoke to him in Gaian Chinese, which made him feel very special.
She stretched out her hand wearing a snake-shaped armband to him beside her. Her hand was coated with a layer of golden light in the sunset, which was very beautiful. This gesture of asking for holding hands made the head of the group's face blush slightly in the sunset.
, he is a "Jati" who abides by Yuanjiao teachings - an ascetic. Before getting married at the age of 30, he cannot have any close physical contact with the opposite sex, including of course holding hands.
He actually didn’t have the courage to touch the phantom of a beautiful woman——
Kalki was stunned for a moment, but decisively reached out to her with a hand covered in precision armor. But at the moment when he was about to touch it, he felt a huge energy penetrated his brain, causing him to suddenly fall down, as if he had traveled through time.
Countless dark time and space fell into my body.
Sure enough, he was shot to death.
Kalki, wearing training clothes, was lying on the ground, and everything around him was like a broken luminous puzzle that was retracted from the far end of infinity to the center where he was, and a sealed box-like space with bright white walls appeared.
Kalki turned sideways and retched a few times. Even if he was "killed" in "lokadhātu" as strong as he was, he would still feel uncomfortable.
When the grand leader came out of the "lokadhātu", his face looked tired.
Lokadhātu means "world" in Sanskrit. Entering lokadhātu practice is a special training for Plato's knights starting from the age of 5. Inside is another world, or a "metaverse" - space and time are distorted, making the trainees
The five senses of the person are severely disturbed. It is said that ordinary people will feel dizzy and out of breath after running a few steps in it, and they will become intolerable within 5 minutes.
The Platonic knights were trained to fight and practice combat skills in it. This is similar to the way ancient warriors would wear iron shoes or iron clothes to practice martial arts so that they could be extremely agile in actual combat. Lokadhātu is very much like a way to improve by playing games with the body.
Combat skills can have various modes to simulate different battle scenes, from ground combat to air combat, as well as various physical flexibility and flexibility training. Knights often practice for several hours every day, and this is how they hone their martial arts skills.
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In other words, military training in the space age all depends on playing games in the metaverse.
"Karki, your performance today was too poor. It was your worst score."
The trainer with the robot assistant touched the projection screen, saved today's training scores into his personal training file, and joked with the leader: "You are already dead."
Kalki glanced at the lokadhātu. It looked like a square box with a door, and there were many pipes and electronic wires around it. Today there was an interesting and beautiful bug in the door. Although his face was expressionless, he was not worried about a very big bug in his heart.
Annoyed by poor training results.
There is a large row of lokadhātu in the hall, and their shadows are reflected on the smooth, mirror-like light-colored ground. Everything is so neat and clean. This is the training base for Plato's knights.
After an 8-hour training day, Kalki immediately went to take a shower. Bathing every day to keep the body clean is a requirement of Yuanjiao teachings. Water rushed to Kalki's marble-like body from all directions. His back muscles were broad and strong, and his martial arts skills were superb.
Not only was he praised as the "Warrior among Warriors", he was also called the "Blonde Angel" by many people because he was sincere and friendly to his friends when he was a teenager. Now, in the blink of an eye, he has become "the most handsome grand leader"
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After bathing, he put on the daily robe of a knight. This kind of robe is called "sleeva", also known as "sheva robe". It is a costume that the knight class likes to wear very much. It can make young people tall and straight.
The posture looks like a beautiful tree in the wind. Just like the ancient knights, the grand leader also needs two servants to serve him when dressing. They are two extremely handsome blond boys, both under 11 years old. One helps him put on his boots.
, the other helped him tie his belt, and time seemed to go back to the ancient Middle Ages.
Afterwards, Kalki, followed by a large group of retinues and attendants, went to the large prayer room and ordered all the knights and retinues to be summoned to attend mass. After a day of training, more than 3,000 young people filed in in a disciplined manner, and the knights stood
At marked points on the ground, they formed a circle and white-robed priests operated the projection touch screen. "Nectar" appeared in front of each of them, and then they supervised each other to drink it all.
This is Kalki's life on Plato during the non-combat period, the life of a veritable grand master of the Knights. Before the age of 30, all Platonic men live with the same sex of the group to which they belong, especially the four major knights.
The knights have stricter precepts. The place where they live is called "Burkhara", which comes from the Sanskrit word for "monastery". There are 24 "Burkharas" belonging to the White Tiger Knights. The White Tiger
The Bukhara where the Grand Master of the Knights lives is called "Trayastri??a", which is the highest level of Mount Meru in Indian mythology - the thirty-third day.
"Trayatri", unmarried Grand Masters and Masters live here. This is a huge building that still imitates a medieval monastery in the space age. Many details are inspired by Cistercian monasteries, and they wear ancient robes.
Young knights with buns walking among them, the feeling is quite strange and beautiful.
"I'm going out for a walk. When I come back, we'll all have dinner. You can rest now."
Kalki greeted the military retinue.
The so-called military retinue is actually a guard regiment. All of Plato's titles have a retro flavor. Just like "grand commander", in Gaia, he is the commander-in-chief of the fleet army. Of course, this also gives everything in Plato a sense of retroism.
Classical romance.
"Hey, I said... you came back early today. One day you went for a walk and came back very late, and you almost starved to death."
The straightforward Luo Hu warned, and the followers all laughed maliciously.
Although there are distinct classes on the battlefield, their relationship in life is very equal, because "equality" is the basic doctrine of Yuanjiao.
"Don't worry."
Kalki quickly ran away.
Bukhara has strict discipline. All members can only eat after the grand leader enters the restaurant. All the rhythm of life is completely step-by-step - rigorous, punctual, and full of religious atmosphere. A Gaia writer once complained that Plato's knights are based on mental illness.
A group of monks who live during the monastery’s daily schedule.
As the super-intelligent entity that controls all operations of Plato, "Logos" also controls everyone's spare time life, because even the spare time exercises and hobbies of Plato people need to be judged based on their genes.
Everyone is arranged to meditate, meditate, walk, and hike; they even plant flowers and grass as their own hobbies. Kalki, who is naturally active, is judged to be suitable for hiking, so he often goes into the forest alone.
The environment of Plato's planet is very beautiful, as if it were on Earth thousands of years ago. Since various factories are restricted to specific areas, the Kinki area where Trayestriense Bukhara is located has no traces of industrialization at all, similar to what it was on Earth.
The Mediterranean climate is mild and not hot in spring and autumn, but there will be snowfall in winter. This is a perfectly cared for planet that also shows its most beautiful appearance to its inhabitants.